From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf-8.el Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200501190251.LAA11194@etlken.m17n.org> <87mzv6avqk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200501190615.PAA11950@etlken.m17n.org> <200501192347.IAA15654@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106180237 8973 80.91.229.6 (20 Jan 2005 00:17:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 01:17:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CrQ0c-0007Pj-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:17:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CrQCa-0004Zr-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:29:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CrPsR-0003ST-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:08:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CrPsN-0003QN-6k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CrPsN-0003P7-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CrPck-0006hv-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:30 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3E88282A7; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779934AC1C6; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 649494BB60; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:14 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200501192347.IAA15654@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:47:32 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.75, requis 5, AWL 0.15, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32397 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32397 >> Oh, I think I'm beginning to understand: An invalid sequence such as "\201" >> is not translated into the single eight-bit-control char \201 but into >> a sequence of two eight-bit-* chars: "\302\201". >> Hmm... why is that? > As far as I remember, that is to distinguish an eight-bit-* > sequence for an untranslated char from that for an invalid byte. Hmm... why would it be needed? Stefan